Welcome to the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network website

The network has been influential in the development of Early Childhood Studies degrees and their variants since 1993.

We meet regularly to share and disseminate information about the degrees as well as being influential in higher education research, policy and practice relating to early childhood.

Welcome to the Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network website

The network has been influential in the development of Early Childhood Studies degrees and their variants since 1993.

We have meet regularly to share and disseminate information about the degrees as well as being influential in higher education research, policy and practice relating to early childhood.

Aims of the Network

We campaign for a high status early childhood graduate profession.

We provide a critical perspective on and a forum for the advancement of appropriate early years policies, initiatives and legislation, by taking part in national and international consultations and meetings.

We support and promote the continuing development of Early Childhood Studies as an academic and professional discipline in higher education.

Upcoming Meetings

July 2018 Network Meeting

Network Meeting

Friday 6th July 2018

Welcome

Welcome to the ECS Degrees Network. The network has been influential in the development of Early Childhood Studies degrees and their variants since 1993. We meet regularly to share and disseminate information about the degrees as well as being influential in higher education research, policy and practice relating to early childhood.

Institutional Members

Vacancies and Externals

Opportunity to become External Examiner for Early Childhood programmes at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick

We welcome your expression of interest to become an external examiner for the Foundation Degree and BA in Early Childhood at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Warwick. Our current examiner left suddenly for personal reasons and we are looking for someone to scrutinise our work in advance of the summer exam board on 26th June, 2018. You could attend the board remotely if you are unable to join us on the day.

External Examiner needed for BA Early Years Development and Learning (EYDL) at Norland College

Norland College is a small, independent provider of Higher Education, based in the beautiful city of Bath. Our BA EYDL degree is validated by the University of Gloucestershire, although we are currently undergoing QAA scrutiny in our application to gain our own Taught Degree Awarding Powers. We are looking for an External Examiner for our degree course, to start in September 2018. Appointments are usually for a 4 year period and will begin with employment by the University of Gloucestershire, transferring to Norland College if we are successful in our TDAP application. The External Examiner is expected to sample assessment instruments and student work, comment on any proposed minor or major modifications, meet with students and academic staff, attend Boards of Examiners at Norland College and produce a detailed annual report.

For further details about the College and/or our programmes, please visit www.norland.ac.uk.

Conferences

As is custom, the ISSA CONFERENCE 2019 will be packed with the latest learnings and insights from the Early Childhood Education and Care field, offering two days of knowledge sharing, dialogue and networking. And there will be several pre-conference events for you to consider attending.

We also look forward to hearing your stories from the field, and for this shared opportunity we warmly welcome you join our ranks next year in June. So don't miss out and please save the dates!

Network Meetings

Network Meetings

The Early Childhood Studies Degrees Network holds full network meetings at least twice a year on a week-day, usually at London Metropolitan Univeristy, open to all members of the network.

Working Party Meetings/Standing Committees established by the Strategy Committee

These are set up as necessary to work on specific issues, including quality assurance, research and development issues. Previous working groups developed the ECS degrees with Practitioner Options and the QAA ECS subject benchmark.

The number of meetings is determined by perceived need according to the activties of the network.